Sunday, November 25, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving (Late)

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We had a good one out here with the usual turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. We rarely all sit down to eat together, and it's nice once in a while. It's another one of those weeks that I don't have a lot to talk about since I've mostly been doing office work or looking for sick ducks around the seeps.

Here's the community table at the Clipper House.

We had a nice variety of fresh fruit. I think it came up on the plane since we don't grow any of these.

This part of a racecar has been sitting around for years, so someone finally decided to make it into a wall decoration.

This is about as crowded as it gets with albatross. They have started laying eggs, and the pairs are rarely together once the egg is laid. There will still be a lot of young unpaired birds around all the time.

This is a brand new egg. The female will probably go out to forage very soon, since she used up a lot of energy making the egg. For the moment, both parents inspect the egg.

5 comments:

Hey Pete, great to see the photos. Hope all is well out there. Will miss coming out this year. Just saw Gary Neilson as he and his wife were on an OS trip to Indonesia. I think he is due to arrive with the counting crew soon. Look forward to updates during the counts.

Hi Pete, I enjoy reading your blog and viewing the amazing pictures. I just saw the movie "Life of Pi" about an Indian crossing the Pacific Ocean with a tiger - hope you can catch the show online at least. Cheers from Penang island, SL Liew :)

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After high school I went into the Navy doing nuclear power stuff on a submarine. After 6 years, I left the Navy then got my biology degree from Montana State Univ. I then worked for the USDA doing human nutrition research for 8 years. I also got my Master's Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of North Dakota. While doing that I worked for Mr. Ellie Pooh selling elephant dung paper (google it) to help the Sri Lanka elephants. After that, I did the only logical thing with my MS and moved to Cleveland, OH and got a job in security at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It was great, for a while, but I found a 1 year temporary job at Midway Atoll with the US Fish & Wildlife Service. I loved it so much that I moved to an even smaller island with only 4-15 people (Tern Island). After being the Asst Manager, then the Manager, I got the chance to go back to Midway as the Wildlife Biologist for a few more years. Just so you know, I didn't write this as an employee, I just commented about my days here and put up some photos, so these aren't the views of the FWS. I still do ocean work for the FWS, but I do it from the Headquarters office in the Washington D.C. area.